Poiana Coţofeneşti helmet
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| Weapon type: | Ceremonial protective weapon |
| Designations: | Coţofeneşti helmet |
| Use: | weapon |
| Working time: | around 400 BC Chr. |
| Region of origin / author: |
Romania |
| Distribution: | Romania |
| Overall length: | 25.5 cm high |
| Weight: | 770 gr |
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The Poiana Coţofeneşti helmet is a ceremonial protective weapon from Romania.
description
Poiana Coţofeneşti's helmet is made of gold . He was found in 1928 in the village of Poiana Coţofeneşti working in the fields, is of a plate gold plate driven and coated all over with decorations and figurative representations. The upper part of the helmet is worked out into a hairstyle that is shown hemispherical. Above the face there is a depiction of two eyes with eyebrows. There are figurative representations on the cheek plates and neck protection. Several monkey-like creatures with wings are depicted on the neck screen. A figure is depicted on the cheek plates sacrificing a ram . The tip of the helmet is no longer there. Poiana Coţofeneşti's helmet was used for ceremonial purposes.
literature
- Vladimir Dumitrescu, Alexandru Vulpe: Dacia before Dromichaites. Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucharest 1988.
- Thomas George Eyre Powell : From Urartu to Gundestrup: the agency of Thracian metal-work. In: John Boardman, MA Brown, Thomas George Eyre Powell (Eds.): The European community in later prehistory. Studies in honor of CFC Hawkes. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1971, ISBN 0-7100-6940-5 , pp. 181-201, here pp. 193-196.
Individual evidence
- ^ John Boardman (Ed.): The Cambridge Ancient History . Plates to Volume 4. Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean. New edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1988, ISBN 0-521-30580-2 , p. 91.
literature
- I. Marazov: Sacrifice of a ram on the Thracian helmet from Coţofeneşti. In: Pulpudeva 3 (1980), pp. 81-101.
- Roman-Germanic Commission : Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission, Volume 50, 1969 [1]
